Indonesia’s startup news
February 2020’s tech, startup and funding news from Indonesia.
Each link below leads to the original online news source for each item, and each item is drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily news feed:
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- Indonesia: eFishery aquaculture startup aiming to raise $15M with solutions for fish and shrimp farming, smart feeder and cloud-based dashboard and data platform
- CoWorking UnConference Asia 2020 set for Bali, Indonesia, March 5-7
- Indonesia: East Ventures Digital Competitiveness Index 2020 released, mapping digital economic growth in the country’s 34 provinces and 24 major cities
- Indonesia: UMG Idealab Indonesia unveils one of its investments, a working prototype of an airborne electric taxi called Frogs
- Indonesia: Zenius Education secures $20M series A with online learning focused on understanding concepts and scientific reasoning, not just memorization
- Indonesia’s GoJek partners PasarPolis for GoSure insurance, offering travel insurance, motor vehicle and mobile device protection
- Indonesia: An overview of Nongsa D-Town, aiming to be a digital talent and innovation hub for Southeast Asia
- Indonesia’s ride-hailing giant, Grab, acquires Singapore’s Bento Invest robo-advisory startup, aiming for a rebrand as GrabInvest to move into retail wealth managment
- Indonesia: Cabinet ordered to speed up $33BN project moving capital from Jakarta to forested Borneo island to ensure new ‘Silicon Valley’-like city is ready by 2023
- Indonesia: gudangada online B2B marketplace for fast-moving consumer goods gains seed funding with 500-city coverage already claimed
- Indonesia and Malaysia to gain from expansion of UK’s Skymind Global Ventures, and artificial intelligence-focused startup fund and accelerator
- Indonesia: Printerous on-demand online printing and packaging platform gains Series A funding, with over 250 printing and logistic service providers partnered
- Indonesia: An intro look at Greenly, fast-casual food retail providing salads, grain bowls, juices, smoothies and other healthy products, backed by East Ventures
- Indonesia to reform labor laws, making it easier for startups and businesses to hire foreign talent, in the hope of boosting in-country skills
- Indonesia: An intro to the 9 startups selected for Gojek Xcelerate’s 3rd batch, working in a range of social impact businesses
- Indonesia: Gojek on-demand services app giant purchases minority stake in PT Blue Bird, a major local taxi operator, for $30M
- Indonesia: Traveloka, SE Asia’s largest online travel firm, launches second credit card, this time partnering with state-owned Bank Mandiri
- A brief intro to Indonesia’s vision for a ‘digitised service government’ by 2025, part of public service reform promised by the President
- Indonesia: GoFood partners Digitaraya and Kopi Kenangan CEO to launch Digitarasa food-focused startup accelerator, aiming for 4 cohorts this year
- A brief intro to 12 of Asia’s legal-tech startup founders and their businesses
Other news in February 2020
Other subject-specific news from across Asia-Pacific in February 2020:
• Blockchain news across Asia-Pac
• Artificial Intelligence news, Asia
• Cybersecurity and data security news
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